A Victim, A Soldier, An Activist: Memorias de protesta | Memories of Protest
By Salomón-G. Díaz-Valencia Translated by Mark Connolly Bien decía Rousseau: “Ofrecemos nuestros sentimientos cuando hablamos y nuestras ideas cuando escribimos”1. Las ideas se transforman cuando adquirimos la capacidad de analizar diferentes perspectivas. Quizás por causas del destino nací en un país en el que la guerra civil subyugaba y aun hoy no encuentra su fin. He vivido ahí la mayor parte de mi vida. La memoria más fuerte y clara que guardo de mi niñez se remonta a cuando yo tenía 4 años. Mi padre tenía un taller de...
read moreMagic Marks the Spot The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Book One, by Caroline Carlson ’02
Magic Marks the Spot The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Book One by Caroline Carlson ’02 HarperCollins Children’s Books, September 2013 Hilary Westfield has always dreamed of being a pirate. She can tread water for 37 minutes. She can tie a knot faster than a fleet of sailors. She particularly enjoys defying authority, and she already owns a rather pointy sword. There’s only one problem: The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates refuses to let any girl join their ranks of scourges and scallywags. But Hilary is not the kind...
read moreA Complementary View
by Vcevy Strekalovsky ’56 Our culture values the practical over the artistic. Arts education is often considered a luxury, outside the base curriculum, yet Harvard’s Howard Gardner shows in his “multiple intelligences” theory that visual and performing arts awaken and engage students, leading to self-esteem and follow-through—transferable effects. Our global competitors seem to understand this dynamic. Business leaders who are liberally educated understand that they are managing much more than the bottom line. Creativity, teamwork,...
read morePrincipled, Indefatigable and Charming, Jack Reardon ’56 Helps Harvard and Milton Make Headway
During the last half-century, both Milton Academy and Harvard University have counted on a single alumnus—Jack Reardon, Milton 1956 and Harvard 1960 ...
read moreThe Goal Is Having Fun At the 92nd Street Y
José Ortiz ’99, director of the teen center and 92nd Street Y after-school programs, says that his days really ramp up around 2:30 p.m. when children and teenagers from nearby schools start pouring in for after-school programs that run into the early evening. José directs the Y’s enrichment and community service–based programs throughout the school year. Three hundred school-age children and 1,500 teens participate in these programs. Every afternoon roughly 40 interns and community- service volunteers join the children to help...
read moreDogged Pursuit, Tactical Focus, and Taking the Long View
In early April of this year, I interviewed Brina Milikowsky ’96 about her work with Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control coalition, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Shortly thereafter, the Senate rejected a bipartisan bill—supported by a strong majority of the American public—to expand background checks for gun buyers. Flanked by victims of the Newtown school shooting, an unusually angry Barack Obama described the defeat as “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” If our government couldn’t enact limited but lifesaving legislation that...
read moreCommon Sense and Core Values Drive Edgy Business Decisions
When Nai Ko ’00 joined his family’s company, he had already decided that conventional retail car sales was not going to work for him. With a degree in industrial engineering from Columbia, Nai was convinced that the business prototype could change. Fully committed to the family business his father had started in 1989, Ko Automotive Group, Nai broke new ground. He re-imagined the sales process and ultimately earned top customer ratings among Toyota dealerships in the nation. In addition, Wellesley Toyota’s new building proclaims the...
read moreWendy Millet ’86 believes that understanding connections–land, animals and people–is transformative
“Horse” was the first word that Wendy Millet ’86 ever spoke, according to family legend. This beginning could not have been more fitting. Wendy says “horse” a lot these days. A Northern California resident by way of Boston, upstate New York ...
read moreLiving in the Active Voice: Things Don’t Just Happen. People Do Things.
Adults at Milton—administrators, faculty and staff—are the architects of students’ experience. They work hard to provide a context that encourages a teenager to take ownership of his or her life: in the classroom, as a teammate, in a production, as a roommate. Taking responsibility for yourself is a prerequisite to sharing responsibility for others. These steps are developmental building blocks for leadership. Whether formally through elected office, or informally through attribution, leaders commit themselves to affecting the lives of...
read moreWhat They Think: Four students revisit the prospect and the reality of choosing to lead.
How did you come to the decision to run for office? I started thinking about it last year. Seeing Robert Bedetti and Casey Caine (head monitors, 2010–2011) and admiring them helped me realize that you have to step up. People are doing that for us, now, so we need to, as well. I saw Jess Li and Nick Maragos (head monitors) in action this year, and thought about the impact they would have on the School. I love meeting new people. I wanted to give back and get people excited about all the cool things here. —Cameron Milton helps you understand...
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